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5/18/2014

I have been interviewed twice on the RTE Arena program recently. The first time was on the 25th April 2014, just before the Cork launch of 'Waiting For The Bullet. I was interviewed by Evelyn O'Rourke who is brilliant, professional, and put me at my ease. If you haven't already done so I recommend her own book 'Dear Ross". Here is the link to the interview: http://www.rte.ie/radio/utils/radioplayer/rteradioweb.html#!type=radio&rii=9%3A20568739%3A1526%3A25%2D04%2D2014%3A

Then last Friday, I was fortunate enough, to have a excerpt from 'The Wolf Note', one of the short stories in the collection, performed by the amazing Bee-Loud Glade of the Gaiety School Of Acting, under the direction and with the music of Roger Gregg. I recommend you listen to the whole show, but you can find my small piece at around 39 minutes. Sean Rocks is back in the chair for this one. Here is the link:
http://www.rte.ie/radio/utils/radioplayer/rteradioweb.html#!type=radio&rii=9%3A20580550%3A1526%3A16%2D05%2D2014%3A

You can find out more about Bee-Loud Glade and the fantastic work of Roger Gregg on their Facebook page:https://www.facebook.com/pages/Bee-Loud-Glade/138319026245878

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Madeleine D’Arcy was born in Ireland and later spent thirteen years in the UK. She worked as a criminal legal aid solicitor and as a legal editor in London before returning to Cork City in 1999 with her husband and son. She began to write fiction in 2005.

Madeleine’s début collection of short fiction, Waiting For The Bullet (Doire Press, 2014) won the Edge Hill Readers’ Choice Prize 2015 (UK).

In 2010 she received a Hennessy X.O Literary Award for First Fiction as well as the overall Hennessy X.O Literary Award for New Irish Writer.

Her work has been short-listed and commended in many other competitions.

Publication credits include: Sunday Tribune; Made in Heaven and Other Short Stories; Sharp Sticks, Driven Nails (Stinging Fly Press); Irish Examiner; Necessary Fiction; Irish Independent; Irish Times; The Penny Dreadful; Long Story Short; Lakeview International Journal of Literature and Arts; Short Story (University of Texas, Brownsville, Vols 20.2, 21.2); Unbraiding the Short Story (Ed. Maurice A Lee); Surge: New Writing From Ireland (O’Brien Press, 2014) and Quarryman (UCC/Bradshaw Books, 2014), and Headstuff.org (10 July 2015).

New stories are forthcoming in The Elysian Anthology and Edge Hill Press Anthology 2016.

Her work has also featured on RTE Radio programmes Arena and Sunday Miscellany.

Madeleine was a scholarship student on the inaugural MA in Creative Writing in UCC from 2013-2014 and obtained First Class Honours.

A short film of her story ‘Dog Pound’, featuring the distinguished Irish actor Frank Kelly, was premièred at the Hennessy Literary Awards in April 2014 and can be viewed on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSl3orufxqE

She ran Probys Quay Writers’ Workshop from 2009-2011. She has facilitated workshops at West Cork Literary Festival 2014, Doolin Writers’ Weekend 2015 and in Cork City. She is currently writing a novel.

You can contact Madeleine at madeleinedarcy@eircom.net or via Facebook, where her account is Madeleine D’Arcy Lane, and she will get back to you as soon as possible.

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